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# What is a dying church?
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/2003621what-is-a-dying-church-html/
- Published: 2003-06-21T19:22:03.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:43:51.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Dying Church, #DashHouseCom, #wp

*This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”*

From an MSN Messenger chat. I'd be interested in your thoughts on what it means to be a dying church. [**LT:**](http://www.theheresy.com/?ref=dashhouse.com) Question for you, if you have the time. Are you leading a dying church? **DashHouse:** Hmm, not sure. Somedays yes, at least at the leadership level. I'm still part of this experiment to see if a formerly traditional, building-bound church can become a dying one. Because I don't have a take-it-or-leave it style, I tend to be too patient sometimes. Overall, I'd say we're a dying church on our good days or at least on our way to being one. (Clear as mud). **LT:** When you say dying church what do you mean? **DashHouse:** I think I mean a church that's lost interest in its survival. It might or might not have a building and structure, but if it has either, it doesn't care about them as much as staying on mission. In most churches, I've found that the first instinct is self-preservation and self-advancement. I think in a dying church, these are hardly even factors. **LT:** I think I might have had the wrong impression. When I read "dying churches" I thought leading a church in to decline and finally closing the doors in hopes of a death to renewal cycle. **DashHouse:** I should probably clarify that. I guess I think in parallels to what it means for us as to die to ourselves – not that we physically die (although some do in following Christ), but that we die to living for ourselves. **LT:** ok, I get it now